# Introduction The Bolornead is a polis-based government, based on the worship of the Blue Dragon of the North, [[Bolor]]. The capital of each region answers to [[Aerendor]]. The Bolornead is primarily avis heritage, as Bolornead is built on the truth that they are the children of Bolor and his chosen people. ## The Bolornead Councils Each polis has a council, which determines which families have a representative in the council, thus forming a self-perpetuating oligarchy. While they care for those of other heritages that settle within their lands, the councils are strictly avis only. # Statistics - Capital: [[Aerendor]] - Land Area: 307,000 sq.km - Population: - Military force: # Regions - [[Northern Pass]] - [[Central Trifecta Range]] - [[Pájaro Peaks]] - [[Nidal Valley]] - [[Bolor's Maw]] - [[Hunting Crest]] - [[North Cascades]] # History ## Founding of the Bolornead The Bolornead was founded in 267 GE, when **Bolor** formalized his adoption of an avis tribe that had come to give him worship. Bolor promised his protection in exchange for their fealty and they settled **Nidal Valley.** ## Golden Era For generations, the tribes of the Bolornead were content with growing and expanding within Nidal Valley. After a while, the cities began to have overlapping hunting grounds. Finding this unacceptable, the Aerendor High Council decreed that there would be citizenry limits in each city for each tribe. While the policy was very unpopular and would eventually be reversed, the decree was in standing long enough to found the cities in Pájaro Peaks. As the cities continued to grow and crowd around each other, and the population of wildlife began to shrink, a new policy was decreed that hunting would be illegal in the valley except in teaching youth to hunt. While somewhat unpopular, this rule was more acceptable to the people, and hunters began traveling to Hunter's Crest during the hunting season for sport. Eventually, several cities were also established in the area. As Hunting Crest became more popular, some avis pushed further north, finding their hunting grounds in the North Cascades. Some tribal families, however, were upset at the High Council for overreaching and yearned a place where they could return to the true nature of the Bolornead. While some settled in the Northern Pass, most of them would establish themselves in Bolor's Maw and in the Central Trifecta Range. As Avis settled in lands outside of Nidal Valley, however, the troubles with dragonlings began to be made apparent. They were wild and could not be reasoned with, unlike Low Dragons which could understand the basic principle that Avis were neighbors they must tolerate. And so Bolor, after much deliberation, decreed that the Avis were to be classified as dragonlings themselves, and therefore they had a right to impose their will on other dragonlings as they deemed fit. They must, however, defer to Low Dragons, unless Bolor gave express permission to defy them. And dragonlings were therefore allowed to be hunted by the avis, although they hold that only avis should be able to hunt dragonlings and that it is against the nature of things for a non-avis to hunt dragonlings. This belief, however, is rarely enforced or held with much rigor. ## Silver Era In the Silver Era, the Bolornead developed formal relationships with the Khora and the Himinjoðyr. The Khora brokered peace and mountain rights between the Himinjoðyr and the Bolornead. This would lead to the Khora becoming a key trading point with both parties, who both looked to the Khora for settling disputes. The Khoran Congress became more powerful as a central governing body as a result.